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BlitzBlast posted:Kind of a low bar there. Hey, I didn't include AGE.
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paragon1 posted:If there's one thing I've learned, it's that in fiction it doesn't matter if your concept is absolute poo poo or the most Amazing thing ever, so long as your execution is good enough. People come for good ideas, but they stay for the execution. A strong concept is good for getting people interested, but if something doesn't live up to the premise then people won't stay for long. Conversely a weak idea won't catch as much initial interest, but with a strong execution it'll do a much better job of retaining the people who do try it out. Caros posted:I actually disagree with this. There are a lot of themes that run just below the surface other than BUY OUR GUNPLA other than the typical shonen ones, and even if its plot never gets into world shaking chaos I'd argue Build Fighters is a lot deeper than many of the 'serious' Gundam shows. That isn't obvious from the premise though. "Kids playing Gunpla battle" is what people hear before they try the show, which does make it sound like a cash-grab.
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Feb 17, 2014 12:33
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New episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6IBs_q0XfQ Nils uses Hokuto Shinken.
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That freezeframe previeuw image is straight out of Gurren Lagann (or what GL took it from i guess)
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Zedd posted:That freezeframe previeuw image is straight out of Gurren Lagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT THE GENIUS!
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Feb 17, 2014 16:58
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Caroraaaaaaaaain is still being the best character that doesn't pilot a Gyan. A Good episode even without the fights. EDIT: Holy poo poo did they cut some animation corners this episode. I wish I had a gif of Sei and Reiji walking down the stairs after the fight. Jesus. ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Feb 17, 2014 17:00
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I will give them credit for bringing up a lot of different styles of fights. Last week was a pure guerilla tactics shootout. This week's fight was 100% cribbed straight out of classic samurai action and chinese martial arts movies. Except with more punching. Pureauthor fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Carorine is the best Nils can't handle her 
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Feb 17, 2014 18:00
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He named his Gunpla "Sengoku" but he's using Chinese martial arts! 
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Hahaha, you could see the animators struggling to make things as dynamic as possible even though the Sengoku Astray is a bitch and a half to draw.  Anyways, as always that was a great fight. I'm really glad they've tried to make the fights as varied as possible, from Fellini's "two equals beating the poo poo out of each other" to Mao's "underdog vs expected winner" to last weeks tactical struggle to this weeks "gently caress it, PUNCH EACH OTHER". Also Caroline continues to be the best.
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Pureauthor posted:I will give them credit for bringing up a lot of different styles of fights. As much as I love punch-outs I can't help but think it would've been hilarious if the Build Strike abandonded its samurai honor the first chance it got. Oh, we broke your swords? Guess we'll use our beam rifle again now. 
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Powerstone posted:He named his Gunpla "Sengoku" but he's using Chinese martial arts! Yeah with Nils being off character every time Caroline was in character and both being hilarious, I still found this line to be the funniest because of how out of nowhere it came from.
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Zedd posted:That freezeframe previeuw image is straight out of Gurren Lagann The music that played at the beginning of the fight was as hell too, had to do a doubletake to make sure it wasn't actually TTGL music.
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this is the third time they relied on their fists. Its high time they ditched the Strike base and mod a Maxter Gundam (God would be OK too i guess).
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Feb 17, 2014 20:50
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What the gently caress is Moomin doing there?
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I noticed the Strikes foot "bending" there at one point, you don't got that much articulation son  Otherwise this fight was taken straight out of some Fist of the North Star beat down, aw yeah.
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I liked this fight, it was more straight up dbz then the tactical stuff last episode. I generally prefer the latter, but it was a nice change of pace. Although Why didn't sei give the build strike a machine gun or something, it's hard to cut through a hail of bullets. Also I think sei is going to bankrupt his parents shop considering how many times he's had to rebuild parts of the star build strike
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Feb 17, 2014 22:41
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Because those bullets would still be made of plavsky particles
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muike posted:Because those bullets would still be made of plavsky particles That doesn't mean much in the setting. Strike's shield can't absorb solid shots either. Whatever the rules of Gunpla Battle are, Solid plavasky things are different from Beam plavsky things.
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Feb 17, 2014 23:03
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I guess I didn't think of that because it doesn't really make any sense but I will go with it.
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I love that a negotiation between two English speakers was conducted in Japanese with both acting like Japanese business people. I can think of a couple reasons that would make sense, but it's still funny.
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Maybe Baker was just humoring Nils' Japanophilia. Still funny, yeah.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Caroraaaaaaaaain is still being the best character that doesn't pilot a Gyan. A Good episode even without the fights.
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I love how Virtue's pilot is Movie Tieria.
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I love how every other cameo put in the effort to dress right, but this guy just put on a helmet.
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Blink and you miss it, but Kati Mannequin and Sumeragi are chilling out in the bar when Fellini and Mihoshi/Kirara are talking about the fight. Sumeragi even wore her hilariously cleavagetastic shirt.
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TARDISman posted:Blink and you miss it, but Kati Mannequin and Sumeragi are chilling out in the bar when Fellini and Mihoshi/Kirara are talking about the fight. Sumeragi even wore her hilariously cleavagetastic shirt. And in the background of that shot are the Flag fighters.
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Powerstone posted:He named his Gunpla "Sengoku" but he's using Chinese martial arts!
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Pureauthor posted:And in the background of that shot are the Flag fighters. Oh yeah, there's Generic Name and DARYL DODGE, PROUD TO BE A FLAG FIGHTER 
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Sindai posted:Best moment of the episode. Meijin is pretty consistently the funniest character in the show. I was waiting for that statement to somehow be a plot point that led to Nils' defeat. Then no one else even mentioned or noticed it for the remainder of the episode and I busted out laughing.
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TARDISman posted:Oh yeah, there's Generic Name and DARYL DODGE, PROUD TO BE A FLAG FIGHTER How dare you disrespect HOWARD MASOOOOOONN. The man who's death inspired a nation and began one man's obsession with Flags.
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Kanos posted:I was waiting for that statement to somehow be a plot point that led to Nils' defeat. Then no one else even mentioned or noticed it for the remainder of the episode and I busted out laughing. I like to think that while they were busy animating that, somebody pointed out that exact inconsistency. Cue the staff looking at each other and deciding to run with it. EDIT: Incidentally, best part of the fight was how the Sengoku kept its arms crossed during the entire sword fight. My OP post was right!
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Man that next episode trailer has me hyped that our Flag Fighter is going to do some damage before being taken down by plot.
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AradoBalanga posted:Man, the staff weren't kidding about Sengoku Astray being a bitch to animate. Half the fight was in total black shading just to get around all of this. I can only imagine how the DVD/BD version will look. I'm guessing when they started making the designs for the show, they saw the design and thought it was so cool looking they kept it. They only later realized "gently caress this thing is so complicated, how are we going to animate it?" edit V- the destiny remaster still has ads for mg's and rg's that are over a year old, so it's not surprising. Monaghan fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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I am kind of surprised that, for such a toy commercial, they haven't updated the promos at all. They still talk about the HG Wing coming out in September (2013) and the V2 coming out in February (already happened).
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So this episode kind of solidified something for me. Every single person in the show has a more interesting motivation and characterization than Sei. Sei has basically been the same dude since episode 1 and has fairly little development or change and his motivation is "man, I sure want to win tiny plastic battles because tiny plastic battles are fun." It's a bit frustrating because he is constantly surrounded by more interesting characters with more meaningful motivations. Reiji, at bare minimum, is at least getting plot and storylines and things to do and exhibiting some kind of personal change. Sei... blushes a bit less around China? Even by boring anime protagonist standards he's pretty exceptionally boring.
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